Pope slaps woman’s hand to free himself from her grip
not nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDcjPBhkw4
LMAO such a real moment. The charade of the holy man vs. the persistence of the animal nature. The surface will always crack at one point or another, and that's comedy.
shareThere is no charade. He had a very human reaction. People don't like complete strangers yanking their hands and refusing to let go as they walk away. What does him being a pope have to do with that?
shareBy charade of the holy man I'm referring to the pretense of an ordinary human being posing as a somehow "holy", special figure and the tradition that has made that an institution.
The idea of a pope is absurd, both from the angle of the church's perpetuation of it and the angle of followers' veneration. Any "holy man", spiritual leader, guru, et al will always be merely human, and when reality intrudes on the upkeep of the image of exemplariness, we glimpse the fact that he too is basically an animal, and all the trimmings of holiness appear especially comical.
But the laugh isn't on the pope as a human being in this moment, and he's not wrong in his reaction. This woman grabbing at the guy like a caged rhesus monkey is emblematic of the most delusional and idiotic caliber of blind veneration, condensed into one society-shatteringly childish move that sets the whole panoramic view of the situation upon the comedy stage.